2019
January
Chris won the 2018 Reid Award, Congrats!
Hudifah won the 2018 Van Dyke Award, Congrats!
Top won the 2018 Van Dyke Award, Congrats!
2018
December
Amin won the first annual BME Leadership Award, Congrats!
September
Dean successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis, Congrats Dr. Chueng!
Letao successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis, Congrats Dr. Yang!
July
Chris won the New Jersey Center for Spinal Cord Research Fellowship, Congrats!
June
Skylar is awarded Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship!
May
The KBLEE Group moved into the new Chemistry and Chemical Biology Building!
March
Hudifah, Letao, and Yixio all won 2018 Professional Development Fund for Teaching and Graduate Assistants!
January
Chris won the 2017 Van Dyke Award, Congrats!
2017
November
Letao won 2017 SGS Travel Award!
June
Jeff is awarded Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship!
January
Dean has won 2016 Reid Award. Congrats!
2016
June
Prof. Lee has been promoted to Professor. Congratulations Prof. Lee!
Chris is awarded Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship!
Nick has successfully defended his research thesis. Congratulations Dr. Pasquale!
April
Dean is awarded NSF EAPSI fellowship and will be doing research at Kyoto University for the Summer!
January
Perry has successfully defended his research thesis. Congratulations Dr. Yin!
2015
November
Yixiao has won Fall 2015 Duff Travel Award!
Dr. Shreyas Shah has joined Bell Labs to start a brand new research program in Physiological Communications!
Jeffrey and Marcus have won 2015 Undergraduate Research Fellowships!
September
Sahishnu has successfully defended his research thesis. Congratulations Dr. Patel
Kholud has won 2015 McCoy Family Fellowship for Woman in Chemistry and Business!
June
Shreyas has successfully defended his research thesis. Congratulations Dr. Shah!
Perry won 1st Place Poster Presentation at the Rutgers NIH Biotechnology Training Program Annual Symposium!
April
Shreyas won 1st Place Graduate Oral Presentation @ Bell Labs Nobel Prize Celebration (April 2015)!
Kim won Ning Moeller Award for outstanding academic achievement!
Joan won Chemical Resources Award for distinction in research!
March
Dean’s drawing was chosen for April 2015 Chemical Reviews cover!
2014
December
Shreyas has won Fall 2014 Reid Award!
Sahishnu has won Fall 2014 Van Dyke Award!
July
Shreyas’s poster “Nanoengineered Scaffolds to selectively guide Neural Stem Cell Differentiation” won poster award at 2014 Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices Gordon Research Conference.
April
Birju successfully defends her Ph.D thesis. Congrats Dr. Shah!
Yixiao, Nick, Dean, and Letao pass their IFRP!
Yixao and KBL complete Rutgers Unite Half Marathon 2014!
March
Shreyas’s poster “Nanotechnology-based Approaches to Control Stem Cell Neuro-Differentiation” has won Theodore E. Madey Award for Best Student Poster Presentation at 28th Annual Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Symposium.
January
Birju has won Spring 2014 Reid Award. Congrats!
Shreyas has won Spring 2014 Van Dyke Award. Congrats!
2013
November
Birju has won Fall 2013 Duff Award. Congrats!
October
KBL gives an invited talk at Rutgers University at Newark, Department of Chemistry (Newark, NJ)
September
Prof. Mavi joins KBLEE Group as a visiting professor for one year!
KBL gives an invited talk at University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Chemistry (Dallas, TX)
Prasad successfully defends his Ph.D thesis. Congrats Dr. Subramaniam!
August
KBL gives an invited talk at Chemistry Symposium “Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Sciences” at the 2013 US-Korea Conferences (East Rutherford, NJ)
KBL gives an invited talk at Biology Technical Symposium “Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Immunology and Developmental Biology” at the 2013 US-Korea Conferences (East Rutherford, NJ)
KBL gives an invited talk at Yeditepe University, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering (Istanbul, Turkey)
KBL gives an invited talk at Ataturk University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, (Erzurum, Turkey)
KBL gives an invited talk at University of Missouri at Columbia, Department of Chemistry (Columbia, MO)
July
Nick wins GAANN Fellowship. Congrats!
KBL wins 2013 Charles & Johanna Busch Biomedical Grant. Congrats!
May
KBLee Lab is in collaboration with American CryoStem Corp..
Shreyas won 2013 Duff Travel Award! Congrats!
April
KBL has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congrats!
KBL wins the Board of Trustees Research Fellowships for Scholarly Excellence award. Congrats!
Ani successfully defends his Ph.D thesis. Congrats Dr. Solanki!
2011
May
Sahishnu wins the Rutgers Nanotechnology for Clean Energy NSF-IGERT Fellowship!
Perry wins the Rutgers NIH Biotechnology Fellowship!
April
Shreyas wins the Rutgers Stem Cell NSF-IGERT Fellowship!
KB gives an invited talk the 3rd International Collaborative Symposium on Stem Cell Research at the Institue Pasteur Korea (Seoul, Korea)
Aniruddh’s ZnO Immunosensor collaboration paper was accepted to Applied Physics Letters! Congrats!
March
Cheoljin and Birju’s DexAM paper was acceped to Molecular Pharmaceutics! Congrats!
JoungKyu Park’s Graphite-coated Magnetic Nanoparticle paper was accepted to Small! Congrats!
February
Myung’s Nanoparticle-based Biosenor paper was accepted to Advanced Materials! Congrats!
2010
December
Aniruddh, Birju and Prasad present their research at the MRS Conference in Boston
November
KB gives invited talk for Stem Cell: Past, Present, and Future at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
October
KB gives invited talk at the Dept of Chemistry at Boston University (Boston, MA)
KB gives talk at the MRS Workshop on Functionalized Nanobiomaterials for Medical Applications (Denver, CO)
September
Jongjin successfully defends his PhD thesis! Congrats Dr. Jongjin Jung!
KB gives a talk at the RAMNUC Meeting (Imperial College, London, UK)
KB attends the 6th Annual NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Symposium (Washington, DC)
August
Aniruddh and Shreyas’s Neural Stem Cell Differentiation paper was accepted to Small! Congrats!
Jin and Prasad present a poster at the ‘NCI: Chemical Insights into Biological Processes’ Conference in Maryland
KB gives invited talk in Japan at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (Kyoto University)
KB gives invited talk for IEEE Nano in Seoul, Korea
June & July
KB gives a talk about the group’s at the prestigious Gordon Conference on Signal Transduction by Engineering Extracellular Matrices
Sahishnu joins KBLEE group as a PhD student. Welcome Sahishnu!
Shreyas joins KBLEE group as a PhD student. Welcome Shreyas!
May
Xudong wins the IGERT Fellowship (Stem Cells)! Congrats!
March
KB gives invited talk at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Connecticut.
Februrary
Visiting professor Dr. Jung joins KBLEE group! Welcome Prof. Jung!
Dr. Dongchin Lee joins KBLEE group as a Postdoc! Welcome Dongchin!
January
Aniruddh wins Reid Research Award!!
Aniruddh’s ChemBioChem paper accepted!!
KB gives invited talks at top universities in China (Peking, Nankai, Nanjing, USTC, Zhejiang, Fudan)
KB gives invited talks at top institutes in South Korea (KAIST, GIST)
2009
December
KBLEE gives three talks at MRS (boston)
Dr. Myung Sung joins KBLEE group as a postdoc! Welcome!!
November
KB gives an intived talk for The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group Mid Atlantic Chapter (LRIG)
October
KBLEE’s stem cell paper published in Cell Stem Cell (2009, 5, 204-213). Congrats!
Jin’s siRNA/brain tumor paper accepted to Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009. Congrats!
KB gives invited talks in South Korea (BioTronics 2009, BIOCHIP 2009, Ajou University Department of Molecular Science and Technology)
KB gives a talk at NIH Workshop for Junior Faculty in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
September
KB wins NIH director’s Innovator Award!!!
Nate wins ARESTY research grant!
August
John wins NSF-IGERT fellowship (Nanotechnology for Clean Energy)
July
KB wins NJ Commission on Spinal Cord Research grant
June
Dr. Joungkyu Park joins KBLEE group as a post-doc. Welcome Joungkyu!!
Seung Jae Lee joins KBLEE group as a visiting scholar. Welcome Seung Jae!!
April
Dr. Cheoljin Kim joins KBLEE group as a post-doc. Welcome Cheoljin!!
Nate (BME junior) joins KBLEE group. Welcome Nate!!
March
KB gives science talk for LSM seminar
KB gives science talks in Korea (8 institutions; Seoul National University, KRISS, KIST, Kyunghee University, KAIST,GIST, POSTECH, Sogang University)
Shreyas wins ACS Fellowship! Congratulations!
Vladimir wins ISURF Fellowship! Congratulations!
February
John and Shreyas win ARESTY research grant! Congratulations!
January
KB gives a talk at Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Lab
Zhichao Hu joins our group as a graduate student, Welcome Zhichao!
2008
December
Kevin Memoli joins our group as a graduate student, Welcome Kevin!
October
Lab on a Chip and Biomedical Microdevices papers accepted (collboration with UCLA)
September
Birju Shah joins our group as a graduate student, Welcome Birju!
August
Rutgers awards NSF-IGERT stem cell engineering program (KBLEE group is part of the program)
July
KB wins Grant Proposal Development Award
May
Nanomedicine review paper accepted
KB gives a science talk for BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers University
April
Lab on a Chip paper submitted
John & Shreyas accepted to ISURF program
John wins Outstanding Junior in Organic Chemistry Lab Award
KB gives a science talk for New Jersey stem cell conference at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
March
Book chapter submitted
February
KB gives a science talk for LSM (Laboratory for Surface Modification) at Rutgers University
January
Prof. KiBum Lee starts his research program at Rutgers Chemistry and Chemical Biology department